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Study of economics faculty members finds that men get credit where women do not.
Part III of the series The Illusion of Inclusion By Helen Turnbull, PhD Is it realistic to believe that we can keep it from happening or manage our way out of it? Or is affinity bias such an entrenched part of human behavior that we cannot hope to change it?...
The Guardian , and others, have discovered that when querying Google for "did the Holocaust really happen", the top response is a Holocaust ...
Hate sites are dominating and controlling searches on Muslims, Jews, Hitler and women, and search engine is failing to tackle problem, say academics
Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create a new reality where Hitler is a good guy, Jews are evil and… Donald Trump becomes president
That algorithm does more than you think.
Abstract: It is important to understand the content of media, as media can promote stereotypes that communicate what gender roles, appearances, and acts of violence are acceptable in society. This content analysis of 147 superheroes in 80 movies found that male heroes appeared much more frequently than female heroes. Females were more likely to work in … Continue reading Gender Differences in Movie Superheroes’ Roles, Appearances, and Violence →
This post is based on a talk and workshop that Toria and Ian gave at Etsy’s Dublin office in August. Etsy has a strong set of beliefs that underpins our engineering culture. We believe in code as c…
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This article is drawn from Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction.
Last week I was preparing a talk about instructional technology in the modern university and I wanted to illustrate how IT can make a large lecture hall feel like a small seminar. I wanted to crea…
Because thinking is hard.
When men enter a female-heavy field, perceptions of women don’t improve—perceptions of the job do.
The many ways design decisions treat people unequally.
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education
We seem to be idolizing algorithms, imagining they are more objective than their creators.
Prejudice against black people persists, but gender, geographic biases are problems too.
The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo. Besides being a major headache for Facebook, it has helped prod a growing…
What’s it like to be Black in Silicon Valley? I’ll try to explain…